Cloud Atlas (movie)

During her celebrated 46-year career, Susan Sarandon has played a witch, a road-tripping waitress and a nun who leads a campaign to abolish the death penalty.

Now she's gone after one of her most elusive characters ever: the tormented mother of the best-known sex symbol in movie history.

In Lifetime's "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe," a two-part miniseries premiering Saturday, the 68-year-old Sarandon plays Gladys Pearl Baker, whose daughter Norma Jeane adopted the stage name Marilyn Monroe and was the legendary star of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "The Seven Year Itch" and other film classics.

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